You soon might want to install Linux and get a nice computer.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline
(www.express.co.uk)
Why is that a "big worry"? Windows 10 was released in 2015. So 2025 would be over 10 years of support. That's a more than valid amount of time to support an OS.
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Hell, I'm still running windows 7 on a machine. 10 is my newest and I just installed that a couplemonths ago.
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Most people will not stay with 10.
People still running insecure win7 shitboxes are the smallest minority i can imagine. Most people already upgraded to 11 as its free.
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reactOS. Go check it out and see whether it'll work for you NOW vs Linux later.
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I'll just go back to Windows 7. Lack of security updates don't mean much if even the malicious stuff has moved on to 10/11.
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